What Brings You Joy That Serves No Other Purpose?
Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen
Rachel Brathen
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🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:34.4 | All right, my loves, happy Monday. Welcome back to Self- Daily. It's time for us to dive into a whole new topic for the week. I am sitting here right now feeling really inspired by something that I talked about on my podcast on Friday, the bigger podcast that I have called From the Heart. I was talking about doing more of the |
| 0:57.7 | things that bring us joy that don't serve a purpose for the world. And this is a really important |
| 1:05.6 | topic I think that we should dive deeper into. It's really current in my own life. |
| 1:17.3 | This idea that many of us have, that self-care is valid. Making art and creating things is valid. Doing things that bring us joy is valid if it serves a greater purpose, if it's |
| 1:22.7 | useful in some shape or form. And I'm contemplating now what it would feel like to actually immerse myself |
| 1:29.8 | in doing things that are fun, doing things that make me feel playful and happy, but that actually |
| 1:36.3 | don't serve a greater purpose at all. Something that feels joyful and selfish at the same time. And the reason I want to bring this up and that I'm |
| 1:46.5 | thinking about making this our topic for this week is that especially as women, we spent so much |
| 1:52.5 | of our day focused around how we can take care of other people and be of service to other people. |
| 1:58.1 | And so much of our energy is spent pouring into others. And when we do |
| 2:03.0 | pour into ourselves, we justify giving ourselves that time by saying, oh, well, if I practice |
| 2:08.6 | self-care, I become a better person, right? Or maybe if I spend a lot of time cooking, |
| 2:13.7 | that brings me joy, well, I'm feeding my family, I'm doing something good. Or I like to garden and grow food. Well, then I'm feeding my family I'm doing something good or I like to garden |
| 2:19.0 | and grow food well then I'm also doing something useful and putting food on the table for my |
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